San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-02
ANOTHER MURDER.
WHAT Two TRAMPING ENGLISHMEN
FOUND FOR BREAKFAST.

WHAT Two TRAMPING ENGLISHMEN
FOUND FOR BREAKFAST.
A Dead Body of Their Travelling Mate
Slain by IA Bullet Through His
Brain, While He Slept-Sup-
posed Murderer Cap
tured.
Through the fundamentally OF two
Englishmen, Edward Philpot and Geo.
Crone, who claim to be railroad men, n
most foul and cowsrdly, cold blooded
murder was discovered by the officers Of
this county and city last night, and IL IL
thought the murderer Ia arrested and
will be brought TO speedy justice.
Yesterday afternoon at five O'Clock
these two Englishmen appeared AZ the
city police station and stated TO Marshal
Shardein the following story: They
started out from this city last Monday
for tue west, walking along the South
eTn Pacific. They were after work. One
OF them had been at work on section OF
the railroad at the Seco, and the other
had been employed in the Missouri Pa.
ciiic shops. About nine o'clock at night,
when about twelve miles from the city,
they met with couple OF we'll dressed
young men, who called each other Har-
ry and ALT. Both wore good six-shooterS
and clothes. The four men proceeded to
tramp on together, Harry and ALI say
Ing they were going on TO Los Angeles.
Cal. Becoming tired they determined to
board the next freight train going west
and when one came along, Harry and
ALI. ranged themselves on one side of
the track and CrOne and Philpot
on the other. The latter did not
slnafnh ~ m
OF the other two and supposed they had
caught the train. They saw no more OF
them that night, and concluded to camp
out, and laid themselves down by the
track and slept. They say they heard
talking during the night, but paid no at
tention to 1t. In the morning, just be-
fore day, a big camp fire was discovered
several hundred yards from their camp,
in the chapparal. They went to IL ana
found man lying near it, on his back,
with his feet almost In the fire. They
shook him to arouse him and then dis.
covered that he was corpse they be-
came frightened and hurried back to
town, and informed the authorities aS
soon as they arrived.
Capt. Shardein took the two men to
Justice Barnes Office hs soon as they had
finished, and that official consulted with
County Judge WuTzbaeh, who placed
the matter in the hands of the sheriff.
Constable Stevens and deputy sheriff,
accompanied by the two men who gave
the Information, went out to the locality
indicated and sure enough found tho
camp and the corpse as described. lie
was lying with its hat for pillow, and
the left hand was In the pocket of its
trousers. A bullet hole was found I'm
the back part of the top Of the head.
A small pocket In the trousers, com.
monty used as watch pocket, was
found to have been cut open with dull
knife. This is supposed to have con-
tanned money. Papers found on the
body indicated that the mans name was
Geo. Page, an English hOstleT. Other
letters of recommendation were found,
also tifty-cent coin. The body and
effects were brought back to the city at
1870 last night and a COrOHer's jury was
summoned. This morning the Jury con-
vened and q number of witnesses were
summoned for this afternoon at 2 o'clock
when the inquest began. The officers,
Capt. Shardein and Capt. Cardenas, Con-
stable Stevens, Officer Bsllou and
Deputy Sheriff Alexander and McClusky
all began searching for the partner Of
the dead man, who was supposed to be
In this city, and the entire night was
consumed by these officers, without
bit OF rest or sleep, in the
search. The officers worked on good
description of the man furnished by the
two Englishmen, who were locked up In
the county Jail, as attached witnesses.
With this description it was compare
lively easy TO work. Several persons
knew him. His name WAS Theodore
W hah
working for some time at Dan Smiths
livery stable. He had an uncle living
opposite the new hospital. His name was
McGinnis. The officers learned from
McGinnis that his nephew had been
there yesterday and had left two horses
and a new saddle and some spurs, which
he bought yesterday, at bis house. He
told his uncle that he would return
about daylight this morning and was
going TO set out for Bandera,
where he was going to work.
The house was watched, but
this was not necessary, as Officer BallOu,
while on duty at the Washington thea
tire, arrested him at o'clock this morn
ing. He was very drunk when taken,
and had been carOusing there with the
women most Of the night, and had spent
over $40 there. He was locked up, and
confronted with CrOne and Philpot,
who identified him as the man they had
seen in company with the murdered
man. He denied seeing them, denied
carrying pistol. denied everything ex-
cept his uncle, and admitted having
Valise. His valise was found, at his
uncle's, with pistol in it. He denied
having q pistol. 1t was Identified by
the two witnesses as that carried by the
dead man. He was traced to where he
paid some SIS or $50 for the horses,
So 90 for the saddle yesterday.
He ate two meals yesterday at his
uncle's house. He had some money on
his person and said he drew it out OF the
First National bank. The dead man Is
thought to have had considerable money
on his person, and Yates was only paid
Sc when he quit at the livery stable.
This morning he was taken out Of Jail
and to the county pOor-hOuse, where the
body had been taken, and was confront
ed with the body. He identified it as
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